Cincinnati Enquirer

02/07/05

Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp contend they were wrongly imprisoned after repeated abuse by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, their lawyer said Monday. 'These are classic stories of men who ended up in Guantanamo by mistake,' charged attorney Tom Wilner, who represents 11 Kuwaiti prisoners held in the detention center at the U.S. Navy base in eastern Cuba...

http://tinyurl.com/45cvp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Michael Scheuer, a former CIA counter terrorism agent, told The New Yorker magazine "all we've done is create a nightmare," with regard to the top secret practice of renditions.

http://us-politics.news.designerz.com/cia-renditions-of-terror-suspects-are-out-of-control-report.html?d20050206
http://tinyurl.com/4bjnk


From Information Clearing House

In what amounted to a perversion of the traditional doctor's creed of "first, do no harm," the medical system at the prison became an instrument of abuse, by design and by neglect.

http://207.44.245.159/article7991.htm

Die Bush-Regierung hat Folter und Misshandlungen nicht nur gebilligt, sondern auch wegen mangelnder Voraussicht und Nachlässigkeit gefördert...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19400/1.html

ITALIAN police are investigating allegations that American intelligence agents kidnapped an Islamic militant in Milan and transported him to Egypt, where he was tortured.

http://207.44.245.159/article7985.htm

Martin Mubanga went on holiday to Zambia, but ended up spending 33 months in Guantanamo Bay.

By David Rose

He comes back with a mop and dips it in the pool of urine. Then he starts covering me with my own waste, like he's using a big paintbrush, working methodically, beginning with my feet and ankles and working his way up my legs. All the while he's racially abusing me, cussing me: "Oh, the poor little negro, the poor little nigger." He seemed to think it was funny.'

http://207.44.245.159/article7980.htm

A federal judge today rejected an attempt by the CIA to indefinitely delay the processing and release of critical documents pertaining to the torture or abuse of detainees held by the United States government. The ruling relates to a FOIA request filed more than a year ago by the ACLU and supported by Veterans for Common Sense.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2781